Amends GS 128-1.1(a) to add subsection (a1) providing discretion, notwithstanding subsection (a), to state or local law enforcement to authorize any person who holds an appointive office in a state or local law enforcement agency to hold concurrently no more than two additional appointive offices with another agency.

Amends GS 160A-284 requiring compliance with GS 128-1.1 in addition to Article VI, Sec. 9, of the Constitution for the oath of office and offices held concurrently by certain law enforcement officers.

Enacts new GS 126-8.6 (concerning state employees) and new GS 115C-336.2 (concerning public school employees) to provide three days of paid bereavement leave upon the death of an immediate family member. Defines immediate family member as (1) spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent, and grandchild and corresponding step, half, or in-laws or (2) any person living in the employee's home for whom the employee may claim a tax deduction. Prohibits accumulating the leave or using the leave for creditable service toward retirement.

Requires the Office of State Personnel and the State Board of Education to adopt rules necessary to implement the act.

Effective July 1, 2015.

Makes clarifying changes to GS 116E-3, providing that seven of the specified members that are to be appointed to the NC Longitudinal Data System Board are public members.

Amends GS 143B-394.15(c), making adjustments to the membership of the Domestic Violence Commission (Commission), providing for two public members to be appointed each by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House (previously, one member was to be appointed by each). Deletes language that provided for a member of the Senate and a member of the House to be appointed to the Commission.

Amends GS 120-123, adding the NC Longitudinal Data System Board and the Commission to the list of boards or commissions upon which no member of the General Assembly can serve. 

Amends GS 127A-201 and 127A-202.1, concerning employment rights and protections for members of the NC National Guard, to extend those same protections to members of the National Guard of other states. Makes technical and conforming changes. 

Effective October 1, 2015, applying to denials of initial employment, reemployment, retention in employment, promotion, or any benefit of employment by an employer on or after that date. 

Provides that the Department of Administration (Department) will modify the existing property database to include a field to indicate that an item listed includes submerged land. This must be completed no later than April 15, 2016, and a report on the completion of such is due to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations no later than the same date.

Provides that no structure can be placed on state-owned submerged lands after this act becomes law without an easement granted by the Department. Such easements will be recorded in the property database.

The Department will adopt rules specifying the process for obtaining utility easements on submerged lands. Rules will be adopted no later than April 15, 2016, and a report on the completion of such to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations is due no later than the same date.

The Department will develop and implement procedures with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for implementing GS 146-8. The Department and DENR will implement these procedures no later than April 15, 2016, and report on the completion of such to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations no later than the same date.

Amends GS Chapter 146 by adding a new section, GS 146-20.2 (Non-coastal submerged lands inventory), providing that DENR, the Division of Water Resources (Division), and the Department and Office of the Attorney General will inventory all state-owned submerged lands in non-coastal counties in order to determine the validity of the claims under this section. The provisions of this section do not apply to lands submerged under private ponds, irrigation ponds, or other waterways not owned by the state.

Provides that any person claiming any interest in a part of the bed lying under navigable waters of any non-coastal county, or any right of fishery in navigable waters, superior to the general public, must register the grant, charter, or other authorization with DENR or the Division. Such registration must be accompanied by a survey of the claimed area.  Registering the claim does not imply the validity of the claim.

This Division will give notice of the claims process at least once per calendar year for three years, by way of publication in a newspaper of general circulation in all non-coastal counties of the state.  Any rights not registered in accordance with this section by December 31, 2017, are null and void.

On or before September 1 of each year the Division will report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations  on the number of claims registered, those resolved, the cost of resolving each claim, the number of unresolved claims, and projected completion date of the inventory process.

Appropriates $328,000 from the General Fund to the Division for fiscal year 2015-16 for the costs of this new section and three new personnel. Appropriates $550,000 for fiscal year 2016-17 from the General fund to the Division for the same costs and the addition of four new personnel. Effective July 1, 2015.

As title indicates.

Effective June 30, 2015.

Enacts new GS 14-401.18A to make it illegal for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, offer for sale, or introduce into commerce in this state an e‑liquid container unless the container meets all of the following requirements: (1) constitutes child‑resistant packaging and (2) is labeled with safety warnings consistent with rules adopted by the North Carolina Commission for Public Health. Violations are a Class A1 misdemeanor and violators are liable in damages to any injured person. Defines child-resistant packaging, e-liquid, e-liquid container, and vapor product. 

Amends GS 130A-29 to require the North Carolina Commission for Public Health to adopt rules establishing standards for safety warnings to be included on labels for e-liquid containers.

Effective December 1, 2015, applying to offenses committed on or after that date.

Amends GS 122C-54(d1)(6) to eliminate a requirement that a finding that an individual lacks capacity due to a condition or disease be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). 

Amends GS 122C-54.1 concerning the restoration process for the removal of specified disabilities, providing that the process applies to all petitions for remaining a determination or finding described in GS 122C-54(d1)(1) -(5). Provides new language that specifies that for relief from an adjudication of incompetence as described in GS 122C-54(d1)(6), an individual must file a petition for restoration to competency as provided in GS 35A-1130. Provides that if competency is restored the individual can submit a written request to the clerk who exercised jurisdiction in the incompetency proceeding to update the individual's record in the NICS. After verification, the clerk is required to update the record in NICS. 

Effective October 1, 2015.